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We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal
Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allan Poe
Age: 40 †
Born: 1809
Born: January 19
Died: 1849
Died: October 7
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Crime Writer
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Literary Critic
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Boston
Massachusetts
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Edgar Poe
E. A. Poe
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From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness.
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I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
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In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed.
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The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
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I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.
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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the tomb, came out therefrom. And lay down at the feet of the demon. And looked at him steadily in the face.
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...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
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The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
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We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.
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